Levi, Luke and Amir's Dance Presentation

National Scout Scarf Day

On the first of August it was National scout scarf day. There are four scouts in year five - two from Room 10 and two from Room

11 but only two people wore scout uniforms to school. There are lots of different scout groups and each group has a different type of scarf.  There are also different levels for different ages the order goes Keas, Cubs and then Scouts.

By Luke

Stardome

On Monday 20th July the year 5s went to Stardome with our teachers, student teachers and parent helpers.

First we went on the bus to One Tree Hill where Stardome is.

When we got there Vannesa showed us a slideshow about space, then we got free time to look around! After that we went into a room called the Planetarium where we watched a movie happening right above our heads it was like being in space!

Finally we went back to school on the bus to eat our Morning tea and lunch.  

We had an awesome time.

By Jack

Science Roadshow

On the third of June 2015 we went to the science roadshow at Wairau Intermediate School so we could learn about ‘scientific stuff.

There were two other schools there Saint Mary's and another which I can’t remember. The guy there, I’ll call him ‘presenter’ who coinsidently presented to us a slide about water , we learnt that :

• salt water makes up 2 thirds of our planet and only 3% of the water on the planet is freshwater
• 70% of this freshwater can be found in Antarctica.

cool facts right.

After the slideshow he let us look at some totally mean machine engines, a spiky (but strangely comfortable bed of nails), a pulley chair, and a 3D printer - cool :)

The 3rd thing we did was listen to another cool bananas show about  . . . . . gherkins ( you're probably thinking what the heck do you mean ) the have a high concentration of salt, meaning a lot of salt and apparently salt is a good electrical conductor so if you're having trouble connecting 2 wires in a circuit just use a gherkin to connect them.

Then we did the tesla coil here is a picture of Nikola Tesla’s  one

 

pretty freaky how he just sits there reading his newspaper and they made one and showed it to us.

I loved going to the science roadshow I really want to go again.

By Levi

War Presentations by Luke and Nick

Levi and Luke's War Presentation

Marble Movers by Levi

William Pike came to visit